Combined head-rest and cane



(No Model.)

T. S. MINNISS.

COMBINED HEAD REST AND CANE. No. 432,759. Patented July 22, 1890.

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UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. MINNISS, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED HEAD-REST AND CANE.

SFECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 432,759, dated July 22, 1890.. Application filed February 10, I890. Serial No. 339,911. (No model.)

- and each half-cane resting on the front of the shoulders the hinged hand-piece will make a rest for the head, while the half-canes on each side are held by the hands, arms, or a strap around the body; and when standing to use the expanded cane as a rest to lean back upon to the relief of tired back and legs.

Figure 1 shows the rest ready for use as such. Fig. 2 is the same folded as a cane. Fig. 3 shows the lock of the parts when closed. Fig. 4 shows the adjustability of the halfcanes to the shoulders, as Well as the removable cushion, and Fig. 5 is a detached View of the removable cushion.

Similar letters refer to similar part-s throughout the several views.

E (shown in dotted lines) is the pivot or hinge on which the hand-piece B swings round on the top of A.

H H is along straight wire with three books I I soldered to one side. Said wire is guttered deep enough to allow the pins K K to pass over and hold it in place. (See K K K, Fig. 1.) The loops or staples J J on the other side are made to catch under all the hooks at the same time and hold or wedge them together. The groove is made enough longer than the wire H (see space L, Fig. 3) so that H can slip up and down that distance. \Vhen the parts are together and H at its highest point, a tap on the bottom of the cane will shoot all these 4 wedgiug-hooks under their several staples, and the lock is complete, and if it is to be opened a tap on the top of the cane will jar Ii upward when all the hooks let loose at once.

The dotted lines in Fig. 4 show how the flat sides of A A adjust themselves to the shoulders by means of E E. Fig. 4 shows also a removable cushion F, as well as the lock, which the hinged ends of R B make to prevent bending farther backward.

G G are staples, bent in the manner shown, with cloth orleath er attached,so that stretched, as in Fig. 4, it gives a softer rest for the head, when desired, than the Wood of B B. The shanks M M [it into holes in the backs of B B, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. Being but about two inches wide by three or four long, it can be carried in the vest-pocket and used or not, as the wearer may desire, for the flattened sides of B B are no harder than the slots of a high-backed chair.

I ferrule both parts ofA at top and bottom-at top to strengthen the wood round the screw that makes the pivot E, and at bottom to take the wear as in other canes, for when locked it needs no other.

What I claim as my invention, and des re to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a combined cane and head-rest, the combination of two half-canes A A, each pivoted to one of two hinged-together hand-pieces B B by the pivots E E, the staples J J, fixed to one of the halves of cane A A, and the hooks I I, attached to the other half of cane and adapted to be looked and unlocked with reference to said staples of the other half, substantially as described.

THOMAS S. MINNISS.

Witnesses:

J. N. MCCLOSKEY, ISAAC MONDERAN. 

